IMO we don’t have a free press. What would happen if a reporter presented a positive story that put conservatives in a good light?
Just because they’re Rat activists doesn’t mean they can’t be objective.
Pray for W and Our Troops
What can be done? Little if anything. Those who buy the advertising only desire their product to be sold. There is nothing wrong with this attitude during a time of peace, but during a time of war, as America finds herself in, those who pay for the advertising would prefer Americans not be told pointed information. The desire is to keep the American public, fat, dumb, and buying the product of the advertiser. Again, there would be nothing wrong with this attitude during a time of peace.
America is being assailed on multiple fronts. Yet the media ignores, most of the time, those fronts. There is the threat created, and the very real loss of lives, which when ignored grant the advertisers a means to say, "All is well, buy our products to make each one of you happy."
I am not against commerce, but I am for truth in advertising. If slave labor created the garment, tell the People. If people are being brought into America to drive down the wages at factories, tell the People. If people are infiltrating our government to steal, tell the People. If corporations are lying, and profits come first before the harm done by a corporation, tell the People. But I am dreaming, for to tell the People the truth would mean the advertisers of many products would pull their advertising and go to someone else who would tell the People lies.
Our political leaders operate in much the same manner, in our time. Lies are as plentiful as the sands of an hour glass. Lies are more profitable than the truth, and if one is murdered, why not make that story the lead story, so more profits can be attained. America is at a crossroad. Many times in our History, America has been at a similar crossroad. Each time that crossroad brought death and destruction, no matter the path taken. I pray this time the truth will shine and the death and destruction part will only be an illusion and not a part of our future History...mho
Out of curiosity, which two and how was this determined?
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.
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